Sentences with phrase «supranational political institutions»

Energy access is not among the goals set by the supranational political institutions, NGOs, and national governments that dominate the development agenda because it doesn't fit with their vision of how people should live.

Neither do lifestyles which offer more possibilities than subsistence and... guess what... dependence on the generosity of self - serving supranational political institutions, certain national governments, and NGOs.

By 1988, the UK Left is in ruins, and the Soviet Union is yet to fall, but it is now that the process of establishing supranational political institutions to deal with climate really begins — the creation of the IPCC, for instance.

What makes them interesting is the censorious, elitist, authoritarian, and democratic character of environmentalism, of supranational political institutions, and a few, but powerful climate scientists political advocacy and manoeuvring.

NGOs are given priviliged access to policy - making processes at national and supranational political institutions.

As I have pointed out before, supranational political institutions and transnational NGOs have an unchecked, undemocratic and self - serving control over the development agenda.

That is why environmental ideology is reproduced, not as much at the level of national democracy — which, remember, «stands at the national border, suitcase in hand, without a passport» — as it is in the supranational political institution: the UN, for instance.

Not exact matches

Indeed, many right - wing and extreme right political currents display a nationalist ideology valuing the nation - State and its identity against any sort of supranational institutions and policies.

Powerful supranational political and financial institutions have been created to «meet the challenge» of climate change.

In other words, the idea that the scientific consensus is equivalent to the configuration of supranational and national political institutions and their respective policies is «ideological».

«Powerful supranational political and financial institutions have been created»

A fat, feckless and fecund public — the «extremely selfish population» — is no longer trusted to count as the body politic; «civil society» fills the political vacuum created between people and government by the elevation of political power to supranational institutions.

But that dearth of courage better explains the phenomenon of supranational institution building, of global agreements, and of political and public individual's championing of climate change than it explains the failure of those policies as they meet political and technical reality.